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Smith Elder & Co.,, 1849. 3 vols., 8vo., First Edition, uniform mid-nineteenth inscription above title on all three title-pages, fore-margins mildly age-soiled (rather more heavily so on first leaves of first volume; see below); attractively bound in contemporary half calf, marbled boards, back ruled with six flat bands, second compartments lettered in gilt, fourth compartments numbered in gilt, backstrip gilt faded (but all lettering and numbering wholly legible), neatly recased with new endpapers, sprinkled edges, a very good, tight copy. The work was issued without half-titles. This is likely to be an early issue since it is bound without the 16pp publisher's catalogue dated October 1849 sometimes found at end of first volume. With the first of two leaves of publisher's advertisements at end of third volume. The mid-nineteenth century presentation inscription above titles is blotted and obtrusive but nowhere affects printed lettering. This copy has the following minor imperfections:… Read More

C6a. Very Good. Leather. Leather. 8vo. Published by Harper & Brothers, New York. 1848, 1850, 1853. 174, 206, 184 pgs. 1 pp of ads after Jane Eyre. Text in double column. First US Edition/First Printing. Bound in 3/4 black leather and marble paper covered boards with title of Currer Bell's Novels present to the spine. Boards have shelf-wear present to the extremities. Foxing present. Previous owner's name present to the FFEP. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Charlotte Brontë (21 April 1816 – 31 March 1855) was an English novelist and poet, the eldest of the three Brontë sisters who survived into adulthood and whose novels have become classics of English literature. She first published her works (including her best known novel, Jane Eyre) under the pen name Currer Bell. EB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

London: Smith, Elder and Co, 1848. Third Edition. Very Good. Third edition, published one year after the first. Three volumes, bound in early 20th-century half red morocco over marbled paper boards, all edges marbled. Near Fine with light rubbing to bindings, evidence of bookplate removal from front pastedowns, pages lightly toned.